No ranting from me... I agree with you.rotor wrote:Didn't watch the show. About 8 months ago I bought a Browning 22 pistol at a gun show from an individual that had a booth. I had to be quite insistent to get his name and address and get a receipt which showed my name and address. I did not have chl at the time. As long as I had cash he was selling. Am I honest, yes? Is everyone honest? No. The fact that I now have a chl and could show it as proof of good status is one issue. Is this the loophole that they are talking about? Yes. How to correct it though without having to go through a FFL dealer I don't know. I know you all will chop my head off but technically this is a way for the nuts to get a gun. I purchased another gun at Academy and they did instant check. Would I want to sell a gun to just anyone. No. So, rant and rave about this issue I think that the left will get something passed which none of us will like and make it very hard for private citizens to sell to other private citizens, even if we know them and know they are honest people.
If we are not part of solving this, it will be "solved" for us in an unfavorable way.
There are two goals as I see it..
1. Keeping guns out of the hands of those who should not possess them and
2. Avoiding a de-facto registration.
I've read several ideas folks have presented in this forum for accomplishing this. It's also been done before at the State level.
When I lived in NC, the law required that I obtain a "purchase permit" from my local Sheriff. One permit ($5 cost) allowed me to purchase one handgun (IIRC, long guns were exempt from this process). If I was buying from a dealer, I gave them the permit. If it was a private sale, I gave them the permit and they had to keep it, ostensibly forever. The system had flaws and convenience issues, certainly, but for $5 the seller got peace of mind that the buyer was legit. The most glaring hole was the the buyer had no way of knowing whether the purchased weapon was stolen or ....
It would not be difficult to design a low-cost system for checking both the buyer and the gun. Provide "good buyer" paperwork that a buyer can give to a seller, and a "good weapon" receipt that a seller can give to a buyer. Each one is responsible for keeping the record, but no registry is created.
I am not suggesting I WANT this.... but if we can trade this for something useful to us (repeal NFA, national reciprocity, etc.) it might be something we can live with that actually does some (small) good, and we can get something useful in return.